Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While diplomatic negotiations to free the hostages were stalemated during much of 1980, U.S. bankers maintained contact with the Iranian government through international law firms. Attorneys from Shearman & Sterling, lawyers for New York's Citibank, regularly held meetings with representatives of Stephenson Harwood, counsel for Bank Markazi. Keeping communications channels open between the two sides helped ease the way for the later settlement...
After a statement by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in September set the unfreezing of the assets as a condition for releasing the hostages, financial negotiations began to heat up. Roger Brown, a lawyer with the Stephenson firm, began direct talks with the twelve American banks* that held Iran's frozen assets...
...TIME correspondents interviewed more than 100 Soviet experts, and the magazine's writers, working in their usual departments, received nearly 1,000 pages of reporting from the field. Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson and Researcher Julia Richer culled 50,000 photographs. Tom Bentkowski produced the issue's special design. For guidance in their Stakhanovite labors, the staff could turn to TIME Soviet Specialist Patricia Blake-who wrote the Books story on Russian fiction-and Seweryn Bialer, professor of political science at Columbia University, who served as consultant...
...dance number called "Famous Feet." Tommy Tune, who brings an irrepressible humor to his choreography as well as dauntless invention, has devised a narrow, mirror-backed bridge span of a stage high above the stage proper. Only the legs and feet of the dancers (Niki Harris and Albert Stephenson) are visible. By their styles and their shoes, ye shall know them. Some feet! Fred and Ginger, naturally, as well as Garland, Chaplin, Dietrich and, believe it, Mickey and Minnie...